Sentences with phrase «know after the second world war»

You know after the Second World War, Britain offered homes to several thousand children who had survived the death camps but whose parents had been murdered in the Holocaust.

ROBERT MOTHERWELL: But and, and also Miró's rise to fame really, though he's older, really occupies the same time as Abstract Expressionism where you say he really only became very well - known after the Second World War.

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I knew him very well and am sure that he was one of the most alert and valuable members of the Oxford faculty during the 1930s and after the Second World War until his retirement.

They were adopted later at Chicago, where under Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler they were known as the «Great Books program,» and at Harvard under James Conant soon after the Second World War, where they were known as «general education.»

After the biggest shock to hit our economy since the Second World War, and further challenges to global growth in the Eurozone, we all know times are tough.

Soho is an area of London that is famous for many things but I hadn't known that, for a short time after the Second World War, it had been the centre of an artistic movement.

A significant and arresting section in the second half of Life After Life occurs during the period of the German bombings of London during World War II known as «The Blitz.»

Though perhaps best known for his Bauhaus work, Xanti (Alexander) Schawinsky (1904 — 79) had a long and varied career after he fled Germany before the beginning of the Second World War.

Phong Bui (Rail): I know that you grew up during and after the Second World War in Sunnyside, Queens, then a leftist, well - educated neighborhood.

A stand out exhibition by a well - known sculptor revived the British Pavilion after the Second World War.